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Video: In this Keynote from MX San Francisco, Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett reminds us about the power of having a vision or a dream first, then figuring out how to make it real. He also addresses the need to approach “design” with a systemic approach and ask questions like “What does it take to make a product we can’t live without?”

Another music video from Zoro. This one’s called Azania. Our friend Marcus Klose was the director. What do you think?

In episode one of When Designers Rule the World we sit down with Stefan Sagmeister. To understand some of the inspiration behind the show, we had Mick, who is managing the series, answer a few questions.
ScribeMedia: Why a show on design?
Mick: It’s an industry I have a love-hate relationship with and we thought it’d be [...]

We met MYSELF a few weeks back in New York City. We saw the video. Loved it. And then had a chance to talk about New Orleans, music, spirituality and the business of getting yourself (er, MYSELF) out there. Here’s a video and Q&A with an upcoming musician, about to release his debut album.

About the Director
Simon Klose is a globe-trotting filmmaker who we had the good fortune to meet as he passed through New York City.
Along with documentaries such as Sweet Memories, Simon also has a number of music videos under his belt, such as this one with the South African musician Zoro.
Those interested in contacting Simon [...]

Incorporating Chinese dumplings, amateur rap music, and two art students, the Dumpling House Rap Video is a cross-cultural triangulation born out of work and love, love of work, love of dumplings, and working at making what you love the same as what you do.
A duet between two young men living in early 21st [...]

This video captures the ambiance of a St. Petersburg white night through a SMS conversation featuring two young people in love, their friend, and a taxi driver.
Boy.Girl.City. explores whether one can express their feelings with the shorthand communication available by texted phone messages. Here, Russian words, usually written in Cyrillic letters, need to be [...]

When Wu Hung curated “Shu: Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art” at China Institute in New York, he created the show in two parts. The first, “Reimagining Tradition,” focuses on artists’ desire to become part of the strong tradition of books in China. The second, “Negotiating History and Memory,” concentrates on artists’ personal [...]

Andrei Bartenev created the performance piece Emily Likes the TV for the opening night of the Watermill Center in Long Island.
The 35,000 square foot center was envisioned and designed by legendary directory Robert Wilson as a space for art and theatre workshops, and opened in July 2006 after 14 years of planning and construction.
Bartenev — [...]

Just as the Sowetan township of Zola is a cloning lab for kwaito artists, so Gugs churns out “DJs” (the reggae term for MCs) by the minute. This dependable assembly line is a direct result of the local culture of “skanks”, the roving reggae dances that surfaced in the Eighties, that still exist today in [...]